Alan Kennedy, Specialist Biomedical Scientist Clinical Research, shines a light on the role played by the NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde Biorepository in medical research and its real-world applications in advancing patient care.
With the rapid development of personalised medicine, patients may be offered different types of treatment such as gene editing and therapy. And for the clinicians, artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming very helpful with diagnosis.
With these advances in medicine comes a need for more tissue-based research. Research on blood and tumour samples from individual donors is needed for more informative biomarker studies. To provide enough samples for research, human tissue is collected, stored and processed through biobanks and biorepositories across the UK. Fixed tissue from diagnostic archives can also be made available. In Scotland there are four NHS Research Scotland accredited biorepositories. These biorepositories are directly responsible to their corresponding health boards and work closely with their medical schools.
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